Attendance: Ian, Penelope, Kevin, Tucker, Ethan,
- Programing and testing the first design of our robot's base
- Make the Triangular goal for the club's partial arena
- Make a sign to put on the door so students know where we meet
- Start a blog to be our notebook
- Set up the partial arena in the club room:
We test-fit our robot chasis against the round goal to see if the touch sensors are in the right place and if we high-center on the drive gears.
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Kevin and I did a number of things today. We tested the clearance of the large central gears and discovered that even though the gears move at a different speed than the drive wheels, it is safe to add extra wheels to them to prevent them from chewing up field elements because those extra wheels don't touch the floor unless it would be caught high-center on the gears. We determined that we need to bring the touch sensors closer together to get a reliable reading of weather or not we are square with the circular scoring element. We also created this blog, and wrote a simple program that allows us to drive the robot.
Ethan and I also made a foam triangle for the central goal mock-up on the field.
I just talked to my dad and he says that roller hockey pucks like the ones we'll be using might have sharp corners, which may be very important to know when considering the design and build for a scooping mechanism
At the super quest training conference at Hillsboro high school, Dale Jordan (coach of the Psychedelic Strawberries) had a number of the "official" pucks, which were used in a partial field with our puckrack. They were not particularly sharp, and I don't anticipate the Red/Blue ones that FIRST will sell being sharp.
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